Improvement in harness



l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,1162, dated July 17, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WASHBURN PEABODY, of DiXniont Centre, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harnesses for Horses; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top View, and Fig. 2 au elevation, of a harness back-strap and breeehingstays provided with my invention, the purpose of which is to hold up the driving-reins and prevent them from slipping down the rurnp and against the thighs or the hind legs of a horse.

In carrying out my invention I arrange at and upon the junction of the back-strap and the breeohing-stays of a harness two hooks, A A, substantially as represented in Fig. 2, the same being fastened to the harness so as to stand upright thereon, in manner as exhibited in such figure.

In the drawings, A A are the two hooks; B, the backstrap; G, the crupper, and D'D the breeching-stays.

/Vhen the hooks A A are in use the driving-reins are to be laid within or between them, in which ease they Will serve to keep the reins from getting down on the rurnp of the horse and about his legs.

Having described my invention, Wh at I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The arrangement, substantially as described, of the two rurnp-hooks A A with the backstrap of a harness, the saine being for the purl pose specified.

VVASHBURN PEABODY.

Witnesses:

P. WHITE, C. BICKEOED. t 

